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GIVE The Transylvania Times A State And National Prize-Winning A. B. C. Newspaper GIVE 1950 RED CROSS JFUNDl Vol. 60, No. 14 ★ SECTION ONE ★ BREVARD, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950 if 20 PAGES TODAY t PUBLISHED WEEKLY CONSTRUCTION BEGINS AT ECUSTA Large Number Cases Heard In Superior Court ADJOURNMENT IS EXPECTED TODAY, CASES REVIEWED Murder Trial Continued. State vs. Smith Attracts Much Attention HEARING CIVIL SUITS The April term of Superior court in Transylvania is expected to end on Thursday after a num ber of civil cases are heard by Judge J. A. Rousseau, of North Wilkesboro. Trial of the criminal slate end ed Wednesday afternoon with many cases being disposed of. A large number was carried over to the next term of court, and a few sentences will be made before court adjourns. Attracting much attention this week was the case of State vs. Ralph Smith, which was declared a mistrial when a juror was taken ill Wednesday. The case will be docketed on a subsequent term of the Superior court here. The murder trial, State vs. R. C. Banther, was also carried over un til the next term of court. The following criminal cases were disposed of: Vessie Ashe, driving drunk, two cases, suspended sentence upon payment of $125 and costs. Roy Burch Brown,, driving in toxicated, sentence suspended up on payment of $100 and costs. Ernest English, driving drunk, sentence suspended on payment of $100 and costs. Fred Whitmire, driving drunk, sentence suspended on payment of $100 and costs. Chester C. Fenwick, driving drunk, judgment suspended upon payment of $100 and costs. Dennis Greenwood, driving drunk* sentence suspended on pay ment of $100 and costs. Marvin E. Palmer, two cases, sentence suspended on payment of $100 and costs. Larry Galloway, transporting, —Turn to Page Seven WILL INSTALL VFW OFFICERS SUNDAY Fisher Will Be In Charge Of Service; State Com mander To Speak Newly *elected officers of the Lewis Earle Jackson post of the VFW will be installed at a spe cial service Sunday night in the dining room of the Busy Bee cafe, beginning at 7 o’clock. The affair will be a dutch ban quet, and all eligible VFW mem bers are illvited to attend. Ralph R. Fisher, prominent at torney and active civic leader, will install Jimmy Alderman as the new commander of the local post, and otfyer officers are: W. Marvin Gaddy, vice comnjander; Carl W. Owen, Jr., vice commander; John D. Smith, quartermaster; and Fred Israel, three-year trustee. The other trustees are Glover Jackson and Ed B. Garrett. —Turn to Page Seven ' .. ■ '» CALENDAR OF EVENTS - - — ■ ————— ■ ■ ... Thursday, April 6 — Women’s Missionary Society meets at First Baptist church, 3:30. Lions club meeting at Bryant house, 6:30 p. m. Special services in various Brevard churches. Friday, April 7—Kiwanis meet ing at Bryant house, 7 o’clock. “Seven Last Words,” Easter ora torio, at St. Philip’s Episcopal church, 8 o’clock. Square dance in Legion building, 8:30. Sunday, April 9 — Easter Sun rise service at American Legion building, 6:30 a. m. Special serv ices at all churches, 11 a. m. At tend the church of your choice. Monday, April 10 —DAR meet ing at home of Mrs. Alvin Rock —Tom to Page Sl» Many Events Are Planned For The Easter Observance Here, Hold Sunrise Service Sunday ---—• - With Fifty Stars This arrangement of the stars in the flag has been suggested should Alaska and Hawaii be admitted to statehood. There are ten stars across and five down, where the present flag contains a field of eight stars across and six down. The flag is being held by an employee of a New York firm which manu factures Old Glory. (International) $2,4001$ RAISED TO DATE IN RED CROSS ROLL CALL Drive To End This Week; Expect To Reach Goal Of $3,000 Here With $2,400.00 on hand and pledged Wednesday morning, the Red Cross workers are endeavor ing to close the 1950 roll call by the end of the week, it was an nounced by Jerry Jerome and C. M. Douglas, finance committee men for the Transylvania chapter. Effort will be made during the remainder of the week to contact those people who have not been seen, and workers felt confident Wednesday morning that cash and pledges would reach the $3, 000.00 quota this week. A number of pledges have been made which are expected to be cashed in on over the week end, the workers state, and in addition, many people who have not been contacted are sending their con —Turn to Page Seven All Churches To Have Spe cial Programs; Schools, College Will Close Many special church services and programs are being planned for Easter week end in Brevard and Transylvania county. High lighting the observance of the re ligious holiday here will be the Easter Sunrise service at the American Legion building at 6:30 a. m. Sunday morning. All public schools in the town and county will be closed for the Easter holidays on Friday and Monday. Brevard college students will leave Saturday for a week’s Easter vacation. Religious observances in Bre vard churches will begin Thurs day (today) with three of the faiths observing Maundy Thurs day with Communion services. Dr. H. Boyd Edwards will offi ciate at a Communion service at St. Philip’s Episcopal church at 8 o’clock. A Maundy Thursday candlelight Communion will be held at the Brevard Methodist church at 7:30 with Rev. Julian Holmes officiating. Rev. John D. Smith, pastor, also announces a Communion service at 7:30 Thurs day at the Brevard-Davidson River Presbyterian church. “The Seven Last Words” Easter oratorio by Theodore Dubois, will be given Good Friday evening at St. Philip’s Episcopal church by a choir of approximately 30 mixed voices, directed by Mrs. Verne C. Hill. The public is invited to this program. Holy Week services were begun at Sacred Heart Catholic church on Palm Sunday, when a special program of music was given by Miss Loise Stratton, contralto of Brevard college, and Mrs. James Brennan, organist. On Good Fri day, Rev. L. A. Nichols, Francis can priest of the Catholic high school, Asheville, will lead the Way of the Cross. Confessions will be heard before this service. Father Nicholas will take the place of the pastor, Father O’Connor, who is participating in Holy Week —Turn To Page Twelve CHORUS TO SING EASTER ORATORIO “Seven Last Words” Will Be Presented At St. Philip’s Church Friday The presentation of “The Sev en Last Words” by a chorus of some 30 mixed voices will be giv en at St. Philip’s Episcopal church Friday evening at 8 o’clock. This is an annual Good Friday service, to which the public is invited. Male soloists for the Easter or atorio will be Rev. John D. Smith, Lloyd Burhans and Jerry Craw ford, and women having solo parts are Mrs. T. H. Barker and Mrs. Verne C. Hill, choir director. Mrs. Louise P. Miller is organist for the choral program. Groups Ask Commissioners For Funds To Construct New Library Building Officials of the Transylvania li brary and a committee from the chamber of commerce and mer chants association made a request for funds from the counjy com missioners to build a new library building on the courthouse lawn, it was announced at a call meet ing of the latter two groups Tues day in the Busy Bee cafe. Reporting at the directors meet ing, Earl Aiken said that the com mittees explained to the commis sioners that the present building was in great need of repair and 1 that a new structure would be the most economical solution to the problem. A suggested sketch of a new building, to cost around $6, 000, was presented at the meeting, and it was also explained at the commissioners meeting by Mrs. Oliver Orr, one of the directors of the library group, that there was a donation of $1,000 from Harry H. Straus already in the building fund. Mrs. Orr declared that the pres ent building would not hold all the books that were available to the library here, and that this —Turn To Page Seven Aerial Photo Of Pisgah Heights Development The light lines in the aerial photo shown above indicate the boundaries of the restricted residen tial subdivision known as Pisgah Heights and located opposite Camp Sapphire. The lower part of the photograph shown by arrows is being considered by the board of education as a possible site for a new school building in North Brevard. Included in the entire tract of the subdivision are 258 acres of land, the bulk of which is highly suitable for home sites. Officers of the corporation are Louis Carr, president; Mrs. W. W. Croushom, secretary, and Frank G. Carr, treasurer. The Ecusta plant can be seen in the background. (Photo taken by John Anderson in plane owned and piloted by Everett Little.) DEMONSTRATION PROVES WATER PRESSURE IS LOW Both Bromfield And Merrill Make Statements At Meet Of Town Board Fire Chief Dan Merrill and For mer Chief J. S. Bromfield report ed at the regular meeting of the town board of aldermen that the demonstration on the town square to show the water pressure for fighting proved that the city would be greatly endangered with the outbreak of a serious blaze. Mr. Bromfield stated that two Vh -inch lines were laid on the square and were hooked to the pumper on the truck. With the needle on vacuum, the pressure was 80 pounds. When four lines were attached, the pressure dropped to 55 pounds, with a 15 pound vacuum, and when six lines were added, there was only 10 pounds of pressure, and in one minute the pressure dropped to five pounds. “This is no water at all to fight a fire with,” Mr. Bromfield said. Bob Kilpatrick, head engineer of the local fire fighting depart ment, and Roy McCall, assistant driver, testified that four lines were laid at Gibbs Esso station and had a pressure of 75 pounds at a vacuum. Six lines had a pres sure of 18 pound, while three lines gave a pressure of 170 pounds. “Three lines are not enough to fight a fire with,” Mr. McCall —Turn to Page Seven Residential Garbage Is Being Collected Tuesdays, Fridays Garbage is now being collected twice each week from the resi dences in Brevard, Mayor S. E. Varner stated yesterday. “As an economy measure, we were forced to collect garbage from the homes only once each week during the winter months, but now we are back on the reg ular schedule of twice weekly,” he said. Collection days from the resi dences in Brevard are every Tues day and Friday, and collections —Turn To Page Six I Blue Cross Enrollment Campaign Will Open In Transylvania On Monday, Dr. Gasque Chairman HOBBY SHOW SET FOR WEDNESDAY, LEGION BUILDING Varied Entires Are Being Made; Public Is Invited To Attend With many outstanding fea tures being planned, the annual Brevard Hobby show here Wed nesday, April 12th from 2:30 until 10 p. m. promises to attract many hundreds of spectators and a large number of exhibitors, ac cording to Lloyd Burhans, show manager. Authors Thelma and Corydon Bell, who have turned out a num ber of best selling children’s books from their home in Sap phire, have indicated that they will bring an exhibit of books to the show and autograph a limited number for young admirers. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bell are apt artists, illustrating their own books, and they are expected to also offer an exhibit of paintings at the show. —Turn To Page Six Survey Reveals That WNC Is Not Adequately Cov ered By Insurance A campaign for better health in Transylvania county with Blue Cross and Blue Shield hospital in surance will be launched here on Monday, April 10, according to Dr. MacRoy Gasque, head of the drive and physician at the Ecusta Paper corporation. “The problem is how can the average family pay for a needed hospital-surgical-matemity care without financial strain, and the answer is membership in the non profit Blue Cross plan,” Dr. Gasque states. Community, hospital and health leaders in the 10th medical dis trict are sponsoring this drive. The association met Tuesday at Canton with Dr. Julius Sader, of Brevard, the president, presiding. The Blue Cross enrollment cam paign is being carried out in fif teen Western North Carolina counties. A survey by the council of the 10th medical district re vealed that the area is without adequate hospital and surgical protection. The chief objective of the cam —Turn To Page Six Garden Club Seeking To Establish A "Model Mile” Through Brevard Mrs. Lewis Hamlin and Mrs. T. Coleman Galloway, of the Brevard Garden club, appeared before the board of aldermen this week and explained the club’s project of es tablishing a “model mile” through the town of Brevard. It was explained that the “mod el mile” would be the first in this area, and in the future all towns and cities on Highway 64 are ex pected to participate in the pro gram. The aldermen were asked to permit the Garden club to erect a Blue Star Memorial highway marker at the corner of the inter section of North Caldwell and Broad streets in honor of the men and women who served in the Second World War. To have a “model mile” through Brevard, Mrs. Galloway explains that the cooperation of all home and land owners is necessary. The property must be kept neat, and unsightly but necessary things must be placed behind buildings or screened with trees or shrubs. Farm and home yards should be in good order with no broken —Torn to Page Seven DU PONT TO BUILD CELLOPHANE UNIT COST $18,000,000 Straus Makes Statement j Unit To Be Completed By Spring, 1951 USE 800-850 WORKERS Contruction has started on the new $18,000,000 cellophane plant at the Ecusta Paper corporation, Harry H. Straus, the president and chairman of the board, announces today. Located adjacent to the cigar ette paper manufacturing facilities of Ecusta at Pisgah Forest, the new plant is being constructed for Ecusta by E. I. du Pont de Ne mours & Company, Inc., of Wil mington, Del. The du Pont company is taking complete responsibility for the designing, engineering and con struction of the plant, including the erection and the installation of all machinery, equipment and appurtenances. President Straus explains that du Pont, upon completion of the plant, will turn it over to Ecusta as a finished unit, ready for op eration and production. He further stated that the com petence and specialized experience of the du Pont company in cello phane manufacture was the deter mining factor in the selection of this method of construction. Engineers in charge of the con truction estimate the completion of the plant by the spring of 1951, and total machinery installatior shortly thereafter. They also esti mate that at the peak of the con truction about 800 to 850 workers will be employed by du Pont. It was explained that a number of the contruction workers will be highly skilled and specialized ar tisans, not normally available in many sections of the country. The actual operation of the completed plant is expected to entail employ —Turn to Page Six COUNTY CENSUS IS NOW UNDERWAY District Supervisor Says In formation Obtained Is Confidential The 17th Decennial census got underway Saturday, April 1st, in Transylvania county when the 14 trained enumerators began their door-to-door and farm-to-farm counting of the population. Residents of Transylvania today were given assurance by Harry Sample, census district supervisor, that any information obtained from them by census takers will be held in the strictest confidence. Mr. Sample said that the law which authorizes taking the cen sus of the United States expressly forbids census takers from com municating to any person not a sworn census employee any infor mation obtained in the discharge of their official duties. Burwell F. Hall, of Turnpike road, is crew leader for Transyl vania county. Pete Bikas And Son Install Much New Equipment In Cafe Pete Bikas and son, owners, have re-equipped Galloway’s cafe throughout with new facilities. This includes new counters and stools, new tables and chairs and new booths and seats, which Mr. Bikas said was the most modern that could be bought. In making these improvements Mr. Bikas said he was expecting a great increase in business over the months ahead as a result of impending industrial development here. “I have always been a great booster of Brevard,” Mr. Bikas, Sr. said,” and I am more optimistic about the future of the town ever before.”
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